Musings on Social Contract
Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau got social contract wrong.
- Social contract is implicit, not explicit.
- Social contract is incremental and contingent, instead of planned and structured.
- Contemporary categories of social contracts
- Non-aggression principle (Classical Liberal/Libertarian)
- Common Good (Conservative)
- Brother's Keeper (Conservative/Liberal)
- Proper role of state is to guarantee social contract.
